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FRANCIS NIGEL
Islam in the Bible (2000)
After the
September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, by terrorists who
openly admit to advocating the murder of innocent civilians and being motivated
by their Islamic beliefs, the religion of Islam has become the object of much
attention. Islam used to receive considerable
attention from Protestant theologians who studied eschatology. These
theologians held to the view known as "Historicism," and this was the
classic (or historic) Protestant and Reformed interpretation of prophecy.
Attesting to this, Historicism is found in all the major Protestant and
Reformed creeds, confessions, and covenants (in their unedited form, from the
time of the Reformation), as well as among the individual writings of the best
Reformers. Moreover, many Reformers considered the
Papacy "the great Western Antichrist," and Islam "the great
Eastern Antichrist."
Although
Historicism is the Scriptural view of prophecy, it was eclipsed in the
twentieth century by other (erroneous) systems of interpretation, especially Dispensationalism,
and to a much lesser degree, Preterism. Both
Futurism and Preterism, as systems, originated with the Jesuits, to counter the
Historicist eschatology of the Reformation (cf. the three tape set
"Preterism Refuted" [under "Elliott, E.B." at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/E.htm ] and the free article "Apocalyptic
Interpretation" at http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualnls/ApocInt.htm ) for more on this
point.
However, recent
events, are now causing modern Christians to take a more serious look at Islam,
and its place in Bible prophecy. Hopefully this renewed attention on Islam will
also lead to renewed attention on truly Biblical interpretation of prophecy. This book by the Dr. F.N. Lee will be a significant help
to Christians wanting to view eschatology Biblically, just as all the major
Reformers did.
Dr.
Lee himself notes the historical significance of Historicist interpretation:
"We
would suggest, then, that the Book of Revelation itself is prima facie to be
understood as giving the really major events down through the centuries in
Church History. The vast majority of competent exegetes of the Book of
Revelation have interpreted it historicalistically, and neither preteristically
nor futuristically. Church History bears this out -- and so too does also
Secular History. To establish this, let us look at some of the writings of the
two greatest theologians of the Protestant Reformation -- ... Martin Luther and
... John Calvin" (p. 13).
Considerable
space would be needed to sketch the overall Historicist interpretation of
Revelation, but the following quote from Thomas Goodwin gives a good example of
it:
"'These
two, the Pope and the Turk, both enemies to Christ, thus succeeding in the
[Roman] empire and sharing the two parts of it between them -- we see....
Mohammedanism, under the Turk, tyranniseth in the one; and idolatry, under the
Pope, overspreads the other -- even as Heathenism had done over the whole
empire at first. And so Christ hath a new business of it yet....'Therefore He
hath seven vials, which contain the last plagues... to despatch the Pope and
the Turk and wholly root them out.... The plagues of these vials are the
contents of the 15th and 16th chapters. The first five vials do dissolve and by
degrees ruin the Pope's power in the west. Then the sixth vial breaks the power
of the Turk in the east -- so making way for the Jews (whom He means to bring
into the fellowship of His Kingdom).... Both the Turkish and Popish party do
together join, using their utmost forces (and together with them all opposite
kings of the whole World) against the Christians, both of the east and west --
who, when the Jews are come in and converted [Romans 11:25-32] do make up a
mighty party in the World.... '"(p. 15).
Similarly,
Dr. Lee brings in quotes from Jonathan Edwards:
"In
his magnificent book A History of the Work of Redemption, Princeton's first
President ... Jonathan Edwards explains: 'The two great works of the Devil
which he... wrought against the Kingdom of Christ, are... his Anti-christian
[Romish or Papal] and Mahometan [Muslim or Islamic] kingdoms -- which have
been, and still are, two kingdoms of great extent and strength. Both together
swallow... up the Ancient Roman Empire; the [Papal] kingdom of Antichrist
swallowing up the Western Empire, and Satan's Mahometan kingdom the Eastern
Empire.... In the Book of Revelation [chapters 16 to 20]...it is in the
destruction of these that the glorious victory of Christ at the introduction of
the glorious times of the Church, will mainly consist....'" (p. 19).
It's not a
coincidence that virtually all of the major Protestant interpreters from the
time of the Reformation until at least the late nineteenth century held to the
Historicist view of prophecy and that many also pointed to various portions of
the Word of God as prophesying the rise and fall of Islam (see Islam in Revelation: An Historic Look at Protestant
Eschatological Thought on the Rise and Fall of Islam [under
"Elliott, E.B." at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/E.htm ]). They all agreed on this because it is so
clearly the proper Biblical view. And it is especially important for Christians
to regain this perspective in light of the current onslaught of a fierce and
merciless Islam against the West.
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Resource 1. LEE,
FRANCIS NIGEL
Calvin on Islam (2000)
There
are two great antichristian religious systems of deceit revealed in the book of
Revelation.
The "great western antichrist" of Roman Catholicism (Rev. 17 and 18)
and the "great eastern antichrist" of Islam (Rev. 9). This has been
the majority position of historic Protestant interpretation (Historicism) for
centuries (though later writers often see this with more clarity). Dr. Lee
gives us evidence of this in Calvin and Islam, citing Calvin as
follows,
"
In our own day, indeed [1550], very
many people begin to waver -- when they consider the
long continued dispersion of the Church. As if this had not been regulated
by the purpose of God!... The pretext of the [preteristic] Romanists
which
they make in extenuation of the tyranny of their idol [the Papacy] -- is that
it was not possible for Christ to forsake His bride. But here, the weak have an
assurance on which to rest -- when they learn that the
disfigurement which they see in the Church, has long since been foretold.
"The
impudence of the Romanists, on the other
hand, is clearly exposed. Because Paul declares
that when the World has been brought under the rule of Christ -- a defection
will take place....
"The
minds of [Romanizing] ancients were so bewitched -- that they believed [preteristically] that
Nero would be Antichrist! However, Paul
is not speaking of one individual -- but of a kingdom that was to be seized by
Satan, for the purpose of setting up a seat of abomination in the midst of
God's Temple. This we see accomplished in Popery.
"The defection has indeed spread more widely!
For, since Mohammed was an apostate,
he turned his followers, the Turks,
from Christ.... The sect of Mohammed was like a
raging overflow, which in its violence tore away about half of the Church.
It remained for [the Papal] Antichrist to infect with his poison the part which
was left."
Yet,
in the words 'the Lord Jesus shall slay' in Second Thessalonians 2:8 -- Calvin
insists Paul "predicted the destruction of
the reign of Antichrist.... He will be annihilated
by the Word of the Lord....
"Paul
does not think that Christ will accomplish this
in a single moment.... Christ will scatter the darkness in which
Antichrist will reign, by the rays which He will
emit before His coming -- just as the
sun, before becoming visible to us, chases away the darkness of the night with
its bright light.
Furthermore,
Lee writes,
It
does seem that the fourth iron kingdom was in fact both
the pre-Papal and the pre-Islamic undivided
Pagan Roman Empire, as well as the later Western-Roman
Papal and the contemporaneous Eastern-Roman
Islamic Empire into which it then subdivided.
Indeed, both "Mahomet" and
"the Pope" -- as we have
already seen -- Dr. Calvin called "the two
horns of Antichrist." Thus they
correspond to the two legs of the later Roman Empire –
Islam and the Papacy.
If fact, when
the classic historicist position is studied, the fulfillment in the case of
Islam and Revelation chapter nine is seen to be so striking and well attested
that "even advocates of other approaches who
are adamant in their rejection of the historicist system of interpretation have
admitted the convincing nature of this particular identification"
(Steve
Gregg, commenting on Rev. 9:1-6 in Revelation: Four Views, p. 176).
Here are just
five examples of historicist works (available from SWRB, at URLs below) which
provide ample proof that the locusts of Revelation nine are referring to Islam:
1.
Horae Apocalypticae; or, A Commentary on the
Apocalypse, Critical and Historical; Including Also An Examination of the Chief
Prophecies of Daniel (1862) by E.B. Elliott (vol.
1, pp. 446-469) at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/e.htm
2. Lectures Upon the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation (1814) by Alexander M'Leod
(pp. 147-163) at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/m.htm
3.
Notes on the Apocalypse (1870) by David Steele (pp. 114-116) at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/s.htm
4.
A Dissertation on the Prophecies, That Have Been
Fulfilled, Are Now Fulfilling, or Will Hereafter Be Fulfilled Relative to the
Great Period of 1260 Years; The Papal and Mohammedan Apostacies; The Tyrannical
Reign of Antichrist, or the Infidel Power; and the Restoration of the Jews (2 volumes, 1811) by George Faber (vol. 1,
pp. 177-212; vol. 2, pp. 269-288) at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/f.htm
5.
Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably
Been Fulfilled, and at this Time are Fulfilling in the World (2 volumes, 1817) by
Thomas Newton (vol. 2, pp. 222-232) at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/n.htm
Given the prominent
place in Scripture that God apportions to revealing
Islam as one of the most significant antichristian forces in history
(and in light of the rise and progress of Islam in our day), Dr. Lee has
provided a much-needed service to the Christian community by gathering together
(into one easy-reading book) the thoughts of one of the greatest Reformers, John Calvin, on one of the chief historical enemies of
the church of Christ and the souls of men.
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Resource 2.
ELLIOTT, E.B.
Horae Apocalypticae; or, A
Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical; Including Also An
Examination of the Chief Prophecies of Daniel (1862)
(On Islam see volume 1, pp. 446-469)
The title
continues: "Illustrated by an Apocalyptic Chart, and Engravings from
Medals and Other Extant Monuments of Antiquity. With Appendices: Containing, Besides
Other matters, A Sketch of the History of Apocalyptic Interpretation, Critical
Reviews of the Chief Apocalyptic Counter-Schemes, and Indices." This four
volume set is respected by many as a scholarly work on eschatology. It will be especially valuable in our day as it
absolutely destroys the Jesuit inspired preterist system by conclusively
proving a late date for the writing of the book of Revelation. Elliott also
demonstrates the impossibility of the futurist system, which, like preterism,
was also concocted (as a system) by the Jesuits to counteract the classic
Reformation eschatology called historicism.
That this is no small issue is clear, as Kevin Reed exhibits (in his
book review titled "The Ecclesiology of John Foxe: A book review by Kevin
Reed of John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church by V. Norskov Olsen
[Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973]") by citing Olsen when he
writes,
The Counter Reformation is generally considered to have three
aspects: the Jesuits, the Inquisition, and the Council of Trent. In view of the
significance of the Protestant apocalyptic interpretation of history which
prophetically pinpointed step by step the events covering the whole Christian
era from the beginning to the end, it seems justifiable to suggest a fourth
aspect, namely the praeteristic and futuristic interpretations launched by
Catholic expositors as a counterattack (p. 47).
All the major Reformers and all the major Reformation creeds and confessions adopted the historicist position – and it is this position that Elliott so skillfully defends. Included in Horae Apocalypticae you will also find a very useful historical survey of who held which positions concerning eschatology, much history on the Roman empire (and its interaction with Christianity), how the Reformation, Islam, etc. were prophesied in the Apocalypse, a world chronology according to the Hebrew Scriptures (which woul